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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Res: Konqueror to inform about hard links?
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2008-08-28 23:43:45
Message-ID: g97d7j$tbg$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Michael Howell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Matthew Woehlke <
> mw_triad@please.dont.feed.spammers> wrote:
> 
>> Right, and since the other link may be in a different mountpoint (think
>> bind mounts or NFS), trying to find the other link can be difficult or
>> even impossible.
> 
> No. Hard links must be on the same file system, since inode references
> cannot go cross file system.

I didn't say anything about cross-filesystem... but bind mounts can put 
one hunk of an FS in one place, and another somewhere else (and I don't 
know of any reason a hardlink couldn't span this since it's still the 
same physical FS). Similar with NFS mounts, the 'same filesystem' would 
apply, I assume, the the server, which need not export the entire FS.

-- 
Matthew
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